Back to 1982

Variety 31.12.1981: White Dog is an unusual, often powerful study of racism in the guise of a man vs animal suspenser. Too unevenly balanced and single-minded to work completely, Samuel Fuller’s first Hollywood picture in 18 years nevertheless packs a provocative punch.

Roger Ebert 01.01.1982: Sophie’s Choice is a fine, absorbing, wonderfully acted, heartbreaking movie. It is about three people who are faced with a series of choices, some frivolous, some tragic. As they flounder in the bewilderment of being human in an age of madness, they become our friends, and we love them.

Roger Ebert 01.01.1982 : Werner Herzog’s « Fitzcarraldo »is a movie in the great tradition of grandiose cinematic visions. Like Coppola’s « Apocalypse Now » or Kubrick’s « 2001: A Space Odyssey, » it is a quest film in which the hero’s quest is scarcely more mad than the filmmaker’s. Movies like this exist on a plane apart from ordinary films. There is a sense in which « Fitzcarraldo » is not altogether successful — it is too long, we could say, or too meandering — but it is still a film that I would not have missed for the world.